Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro

945 N 12th St, Milwaukee, WI · Aurorahealthcare · · NPI 1861447179

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 21, 2025 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$5.86

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$11.72

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$0.25 with Anthem vs $3.57 with Anthem — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Anthem Blue Priority $0.25 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Nexus $0.27 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Exchange $0.27 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare HMO $0.27 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Charter $0.27 ↓ -95%
Aetna HMO $0.28 ↓ -95%
Aurora Caregiver Commercial $0.30 ↓ -95%
Anthem Blue Preferred $0.30 ↓ -95%
HealthPartners Employee Trust Fund $0.31 ↓ -95%
HealthPartners Robin $0.33 ↓ -94%
Common Ground Envision $0.35 ↓ -94%
Centivo Commercial $0.35 ↓ -94%
Quartz One Commercial $0.36 ↓ -94%
Health Payment Systems Commercial $0.36 ↓ -94%
Cigna PPO-GPPO $0.41 ↓ -93%
Common Ground Exchange $0.42 ↓ -93%
Common Ground Employee Trust Fund $0.42 ↓ -93%
Quartz Group Commercial $0.42 ↓ -93%
Molina Exchange Commercial $0.65 ↓ -89%
Everpointe Elite Commercial $2.10 ↓ -64%
HS Technology Commercial $2.10 ↓ -64%
Wisconsin Physician Service Aurora Featured $2.18 ↓ -63%
Wisconsin Physician Service Statewide $2.31 ↓ -61%
Trilogy Commercial $2.31 ↓ -61%
Wisconsin Physician Service Arise $2.31 ↓ -61%
Health EOS Plus Commercial $2.52 ↓ -57%
HealthPartners Broad $3.15 ↓ -46%
Health EOS PPO $3.36 ↓ -43%
Aetna PPO $3.47 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare PPO $3.54 ↓ -40%
Cigna PPO $3.55 ↓ -39%
Anthem PPO $3.57 ↓ -39%

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Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at other Wisconsin hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital Madison $35.83 $0.01 – $0.26
Aurora Medical Center Washington County Hartford $8.44 $0.25 – $0.65
HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital OCONTO FALLS $23.10 $0.43 – $0.47
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo Baraboo not published $0.36 – $0.50
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville Janesville not published $0.36 – $0.50
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Madison not published $0.36 – $0.50
SSM Health Monroe Hospital Monroe not published $0.25 – $0.75
SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital Ripon not published $0.28 – $0.74

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